In 1913, the world saw the first professional photographs of penguins in Antarctica, taken by H.G. Pointing of the fated Terra Nova expedition.

Captain Robert F. Scott and his team of British explorers lost a race against the Norwegians to the South Pole, but spend the next two years documenting their findings in Antarctica before every last member of the crew perished, only to be found by a search party 8 months later.

In 1913 the search party returned with photographs and journals from the Terra Nova, you can see them here. less

Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880 - 1963) and meteorologist Charles Wright (1887 - 1975) in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 5th January 1911. The 'Terra Nova' is in the background. less